Katkari language

Katkari
Native to	India
Region	Maharashtra, Rajasthan, Gujarat
Ethnicity	294,000 Kathodi (2007?)^[1]
Native speakers	12,000 (2007)^[2]
Language family	Indo-European Indo-Iranian Indo-Aryan Southern Zone Marathi–Konkani Katkari
Language codes
ISO 639-3	`kfu`
Glottolog	`katk1238`^[3]

Katkari, or Kathodi, is an Indian language, which is classified with Konkani. It is endangered, with only a few percent of ethnic Kathodi speaking it. The Katkari people live primarily in Maharashtra.

References

↑ Katkari language at Ethnologue (16th ed., 2009)
↑ Katkari at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Katkari". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.

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